The Vulnerability in Procedural Ethics dataset includes 44 national ethics guidelines, as well as associated coding. The dataset relies on publicly available information collected via desk-based online searches. For a full list of sources, see Annex A in "Tapscott & Moxon_Vulnerability in Guidelines_SupplementaryMaterials".

For the quantitative data codebook, see Annex B in "Tapscott & Moxon_Vulnerability in Guidelines_SupplementaryMaterials". 

For intercoder reliability results, see Annex C in "Tapscott & Moxon_Vulnerability in Guidelines_SupplementaryMaterials"

The full dataset is available in the file "VPE_QR_2024_final.dta"


Replication files for this paper are available in the file "Replication Code for Vulnerability in Procedural Ethics (Tapscott & Moxon 2025).do"

For further queries, please contact Rebecca Tapscott (Rebecca.Tapscott@glasgow.ac.uk)